Two factors worked for him: his own hard work and the support of some powerful patrons. His posting to Camp Meade led to an introduction made by a dashing, aristocratic officer named George S. Patton, whom Eisenhower had befriended, to one of the most influential and respected men in the interwar army, Brig. Gen. Fox Conner. As operations officer for the American Expeditionary Force during the war, Conner had won a reputation as one of the army’s finest minds and most respected senior officers. Eisenhower and Conner developed a strong relationship based on mutual admiration, and Conner adopted
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